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U.S. Army Sgt. Claudia Rector from the Kentucky Army National Guard hands out extra school supplies to children in the 6th grade at Nasaji Gulbahar Girls School in Kapisa Dec. 3. More than 600 children were surprised when the guardsmen showed up at their school with more than 50 boxes of supplies. US Dept of Defense Current Photos

U.S. Marines deliver supplies to a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 20, 2011. The Matthew Freeman Project: Pens & Paper for Peace, a charitable organization, provided the materials. It routinely collects and send supplies to U.S. military personnel to distribute in war-torn countries where conflict has interrupted education for children. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Catherine Threat.

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Eighty men from Parwan, Kapisa and Panjshir Provinces, Afghanistan, attend a ceremony to mark the beginning of their training at the Korean Vocational Training Center on Bagram Airfield March 7. They are the second group to attend the school. The first class had 85 members, 80 of which are currently working on Bagram or in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by U.S. Army Spc. James Wilton, Task Force Red Bulls Public Affairs)

One of the teachers working at Rahim Kalay's new classroom tutors one of his students. As the Taliban's grip on Rahim Kalay quickly loosens more every day, the town's youth are able to attend lessons in their newly built classroom more frequently. During a routine patrol of the local area and the new classroom, Irish Guard soldiers and Danish Civil Military Cooperation team members were able to observe a class in progress on Feb. 6. Photo by Cpl. Brian Gabriel Jr.

Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul survey the compound of a school near Combat Outpost Mizan, Zabul Province, Aug. 14. PRT Zabul is working to renovate the school as part of an ongoing effort to improve Mizan District.Members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul survey the compound of a school near Combat Outpost Mizan, Zabul Province, Aug. 14. PRT Zabul is working to renovate the school as part of an ongoing effort to improve Mizan District. Photo by Senior Airman Nathanael Callon.

Children from the Chinari Village school outside Kabul, Afghanistan, say goodbye to airmen assigned to the Afghan Air Force 201st Corps, the U.S. Air Force 438th Air Expeditionary Wing and the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Wing who delivered school supplies for 600 students, sporting equipment, bedding, a large tent, and an all weather Afghanistan flag, Aug. 9, 2010. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class David R. Quillen

Maj. J.D. Loftis measures the entry way to an Afghan classroom Oct. 27, 2009, in Qalat, Afghanistan. One of the projects being supported by the American servicemembers is installing doors on classrooms across the province. Major Loftis is an information operations officer from the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Angelita Lawrence)

Ron Ashley, an Army Corps of Engineers engineer with the provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Samer Khil School in Behsood District, April 7, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Dustin Hart

By Air Force Capt. Dustin Hart
Special to American Forces Press Service

NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, April 10, 2009 – A stream of elders waited their turn to thank the provincial reconstruction team and its government partners here for bringing the boys and girls of Samer Khil village the two bright-yellow school buildings that stood behind them.

The scene in the small village of Behsood District on April 7 is becoming familiar for Nangarhar PRT members, who joined the village elders and government officials to celebrate the opening of the school during a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Samer Khil Boys and Girls School, completed in about nine months, was a $200,000 project funded by the PRT. It marked the sixth school the PRT has finished in the past two months in three different districts.

“In order to become a prosperous country once again, we must have education and schools to achieve our goals,” said Mohammed Khan, a village elder for Samer Khil. “Because of the PRT’s help, this dream is moving quickly.”

In addition to the recent completion of the six schools, the PRT is working to bring 18 new schools to seven districts in Nangarhar. The team also has proposed about 40 new school buildings to be built in the next year.

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Chris Fluellen plays a game with students during the ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the renovation of Al-Khaladeen School in Lutifiyah, Iraq, March 19, 2009. Fluellen is a platoon leader assigned to Company A, 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jamie Vernon

As the suits queue up for the available courtrooms, there’s another idea that might be worth a look.

A new kind of company has emerged lately: the Limited Liability Company, or LLC.
It has been defined
as:

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A business structure that is a hybrid of a partnership and a corporation. Its owners are shielded from personal liability and all profits and losses pass directly to the owners without taxation of the entity itself.

So why not apply that
Limited Liability
idea to schools and colleges and universities?

There could be many different models for the balance between security and privacy, or between safety and tuition costs, for example. Indeed, there could be as many different models as there are states. As time passed, states could find themselves borrowing ideas from one another.

To the extent that these various relationship models can be defined in law, the schools can advertise themselves to prospective students (and parents).